A bi-functional nano-composite coating has been created on a porous Nomex fabric support as a trap
for aspirated virus contaminated water. Nomex fabric was successively dip-coated in solutions
containing cysteic acid ...

A new modification of homotopy analysis method (HAM) is proposed in this paper. The auxiliary differential operator is specifically chosen so that more than one secular term must be eliminated. The proposed method can ...

In order to accurately predict the performance of micro-electromechanical systems which use piezoelectric material, precise knowledge
of the piezoelectric coefficients is critical. Current material characterization methods ...

The evaluation of heat production from gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) irradiated with radio-frequency (RF) energy has been problematic due to Joule heating of their background ionic buffer suspensions. Insights into the physical ...

The lack of readily available sterilization processes for medicine
and dentistry practices in the developing world is a major risk
factor for the propagation of disease. Modern medical facilities in
the developed world ...

We propose a method for coronary arterial dynamics computation with medical-image-based time-dependent anatomical models. The objective is to improve the computational analysis of coronary arteries for better understanding ...

Stroke is one of the leading causes of long-term disability today; therefore, many research efforts are focused on designing maximally effective and efficient treatment methods. In particular, robotic stroke rehabilitation ...

In this paper a novel non-iterative approach is proposed to address the problem of deriving
non-stationary stochastic processes which are compatible in the mean sense with a given (target) response
(uniform hazard) ...

Biological tissues have the remarkable ability to remodel and repair in response to disease, injury and mechanical stresses. Synthetic materials lack the complexity of biological tissues, and man-made materials that respond ...

The morphology of graphene is crucial for its applications, yet an
adequate theory of its growth is lacking: It is either simplified to a
phenomenological-continuum level or is overly detailed in atomistic
simulations, ...

Fluorinated graphene oxide (FGO) is reported for the first time as a magnetically responsive drug carrier that can serve as a MRI and photoacoustic contrast agent, under pre-clinical settings, as well as a photothermal ...

High energy and high power electrochemical energy storage devices rely on different fundamental working principles - bulk vs. surface ion diffusion and electron conduction. Meeting both characteristics within a single or ...

Background:
A label-free immunosensor from as-grown double wall carbon nanotubes (DW) bundles was
developed for detecting Salmonella typhimurium. The immunosensor was fabricated by using
the as-grown DW bundles as an ...

Commercial samples of Magnetite with size ranging from 25–30nm were coated with polyaniline by using radio frequency plasma polymerization to achieve a core shell structure of magnetic nanoparticle (core)–Polyaniline ...

Current lithium batteries operate on inorganic insertion compounds to power a diverse range of
applications, but recently there is a surging demand to develop environmentally friendly green electrode
materials. To develop ...

Flow problems with moving boundaries and interfaces include fluid--structure interaction (FSI) and a number of other classes of problems, have an important place in engineering analysis and design, and offer some formidable ...

Two dimensional transitionmetal dichalcogenides (2D TMDs) offer promise as optoelectronic materials due to their direct band gap and reasonably good mobility values. However, most metals form high resistance contacts on ...

Over the last half century, numerous nonlinear variants of the tuned mass damper have been developed in order to improve attenuation characteristics. In the present study, the performance of a linear oscillator and an ...

Risers are the conduits between the subsea wellhead and the drilling/production platform for development, production, gas lift or water injection purposes, which are also one of the most important and the most vulnerable ...

If the components of a battery, including electrodes, separator, electrolyte and the current collectors can be designed as paints and applied sequentially to build a complete battery, on any arbitrary surface, it would ...

In this paper, we summarize a novel approach to robotic rehabilitation that capitalizes on the benefits of patient intent and real-time assessment of impairment. Specifically, an upper-limb, physical human-robot interface ...

For the next generation of phoXonic, plasmonic, optomechanical
and microfluidic devices, the capability to create 3D
microstructures is highly desirable. Fabrication of such structures by
conventional top-down techniques ...

There is a substantial interest in finding materials with high nonlinear optical (NLO) properties of materials because
of its attractive applications in optical limiting for safety protections. In an effort to develop ...

Regaining upper extremity function is the primary concern of persons with tetraplegia caused by spinal cord injury (SCI). Robotic rehabilitation has been inadequately tested and underutilized in rehabilitation of the upper ...

We show that the lack of inversion symmetry in monolayer MoS2 allows strong optical second harmonic
generation. The second harmonic of an 810-nm pulse is generated in a mechanically exfoliated monolayer, with a
nonlinear ...

The present paper mainly focuses on numerical and analytical study of a piecewise linear dynamic oscillator with negative stiffness followed by positive stiffness which has not been studied to date. The dynamic system of ...

The operating temperatures of current electrochemical energy storage devices are limited due to electrolyte
degradation and separator instability at higher temperatures. Here we demonstrate that a tailored mixture
of ...

We introduce a new approach to deriving higher order basis functions implemented in the Multiscale Finite Element Method (MsFEM) for elliptic problems. MsFEM relies on capturing small scale features of the system through ...